M.E. Kerr

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1901
  • Latest Book:
    September 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Shoebag

1 - Shoebag (Dec-2013)
2 - Shoebag Returns (Dec-2013)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Slap Your Sides

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    World War II is raging in Europe, but back home in Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, Bud Shoemaker, a Quaker and a pacifist, has taken a one-man stand against the fight by declaring himself a conscientious objector. Fourteen-year-old Jubal sees his broth...

  • Is that you, Miss Blue?

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    During her first term at boarding school, fifteen-year-old Flanders tries to cope with a variety of unusual people and situations and come to terms with her conflicting emotions about her recently separated parents....

  • Gentlehands

    Buddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Skye Pennington spends the summers nearby on lavish estate complete with ocean view and a butler named Peacock.

    But Skye and Bud...

  • The Son of Someone Famous

    Though to Brenda Belle Blossom's mother he is just "that boy . . . tying those beer cans to the Christmas tree," sixteen-year-old Adam is really the son of a famous movie star who hobnobs with royalty while jetting all over the world. Smarty Brenda B...

  • Him She Loves?

  • Fell

    John Fell loves his family and gourmet cooking, and feels appropriately tormented by Keats, his rich girlfriend from the right side of the tracks. A normal life - normal, that is, until he meets Woodrow Pingree one night by ramming into the back of h...

  • If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?

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    Stein, the new boy at Cayuta High, is nicknamed ""Doomed"" by classmates who never guess he''ll soon be the school star. He invents a newspaper called REMOTE, with ads everyone wants to imitate. Before long, Stein, the nerd who seemed like a lose...

  • Fell Back

    When a classmate at his exclusive private school falls to his death from a tower, seventeen-year-old John Fell is determined to find out whether the incident was suicide, accident, or murder....

  • Little Little

    Finding the right mate is no small matter...

    Little Little La Belle is the daughter of the wealthiest businessman in town. She is everything an heiress should be -- beautiful, independent, and perfect in every way. Except fo...



  • Fell Down

    If things seem too good to be true, they probably are.A fateful car accident with a mysterious stranger sets a young man on a startling new path, tangled with promise, mystery, and danger. Presented with an offer too good refuse, working-class John F...

  • I Stay Near You

    Passed from generation to generation, a gold ring inscribed with “I Stay Near You” mysteriously manipulates a complex chain of events. “Kerr is at her comic and poignant best.”--Booklist “Different eras, conflicting life styles, and contras...

  • What Became of Her

    What became of Rosa Fitch? In Serenity, Pennsylvania, everyone wondered what would become of Rose Fitch, and then they forgot about her, the way you put bad news out of your head. But Rose never let herself forget about them...and now she's back. ...

  • The Books of Fell

    If things seem too good to be true, they probably are. A fateful car accident with a mysterious stranger sets a young man on a startling new path, tangled with promise, mystery, and danger. Presented with an offer too good to refuse, working-class J...

  • Snakes Don't Miss Their Mothers

    A heartwarming novel of hope and love follows the residents of Critters, an animal shelter in the Hamptons, as they each cope with their own trials and tribulations--from Marshall, a king snake who longs to be adopted, to Rex, a yellow lab who is on ...

  • Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!

    When Tucker Woolf needs to find a new home for his cat he only gets one call. It's from Dinky Hacker, the strongest girl he has ever met. She doesn't shoot smack, but she sure could tell you a lot about kids who do. And once the cat moves in with Di...

  • Your Eyes in Stars

    Two unlikely friends--a German outsider and the daughter of the local prison warden--discover each other at the same time they discover Slater Carr, the boy who was a lifer at Cayuta Prison. His nightly bugle renditions of Taps hold their small town ...

  • Someone Like Summer

    Annabel first sees him playing soccer near her house. His name is Esteban--she sees it on the back of his team shirt. He notices her, smiles, then looks back over his shoulder at her again. It is the beginning of summer in the resort town of Seav...

  • "Hello," I Lied

    From the Margaret A. Edwards Award-winning author of Deliver Us from Evie comes a novel about a gay teenager who discovers a different kind of love during an unforgettable summer in the Hamptons I’d always think of it as the summer that I loved ...

  • Deliver Us from Evie

    Award-winning author M. E. Kerr challenges stereotypes in this story about a fifteen-year-old grappling with his older sister’s sexuality Parr Burrman lives with his parents and his older brother and sister on a farm in Missouri. They’re a typ...



  • Frankenlouse

    A fourteen-year-old boy invents a comic-book fantasy world ruled by a book-dwelling insect named Frankenlouse I am called Nick. I was fourteen the year of this story, the year that changed my life... Nick Reber is a cadet with cartoonist drea...

  • Linger

    In this novel by the award-winning author of Gentlehands and Slap Your Sides, a teenager starts to look at life differently when his older brother is sent to the Persian Gulf To sixteen-year-old Gary Peel, Linger is home. His father is manager of ...

  • Love Is a Missing Person

    A Long Island teenager reunites with her older sister in a novel about family, sibling rivalry, and the love you didn’t know you were missing Fifteen-year-old Suzy Slade’s parents are divorced. Now Suzy lives with her mother in a beautiful hou...

  • Night Kites

    What do you do when your whole world is blown apart? A seventeen-year-old confronts love, betrayal, and his brother’s illness in this brave, deeply compassionate novel by M. E. Kerr Life is going great for Seaville High senior Erick Rudd. He’s...

  • The Shuteyes

    The fantastical story of a lonely eleven-year-old whose parrot takes him on a magical mystery tour of a planet where sleeping is against the law Chester Dumbello’s mom interprets people’s dreams. One day a white, one-eyed parrot flies into the...

  • What I Really Think of You

    The daughter of faith-healing Christians and the son of a TV evangelist are the stars of this lively cautionary tale about religion, family, faith, and love I start my story with the day I first saw Jesse Pegler. That was when my whole life first ...

  • Shoebag

    Shoebag - 1

    A cockroach wakes up one morning and discovers that he has turned into a boy Shoebag likes his life as a cockroach. Like the others in his “tribe,” he was named for the place of his birth -- in his case, a white summer sandal. He enjoys living...

  • Shoebag Returns

    Shoebag - 2

    In the hilarious sequel to Shoebag, the cockroach uses his magical abilities to help a lonely boy at an all-girls’ school Shoebag and his roach family have taken up residence in the Lower School at Miss Rattray’s School for Girls in Wayne, Pen...

  • I'll Love You When You're More Like Me

    Sabra St. Amour, reluctant teenage soap opera star, is spending the summer in the Hamptons with her domineering mother, recuperating from an ulcer and a nervous breakdown. Walking on the beach one day, Sabra meets Wally Witherspoon, son of the local ...

  • Edge: Collected Stories

    These 15 short stories by a writer the New York Times Book Review has called “one of the grand masters of young adult fiction” capture our fears, yearnings, loneliness, self-doubts, and universal need for love and acceptance M. E. Kerr’s p...



  • Shockproof Sydney Skate

    A uniquely witty novel exploring sex, freedom, and the process of growing up Sydney Skate considers himself shockproof. For as long as he can remember, he's known that his fashionable Manhattan mother is secretly a lesbian, although he's never le...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

M.E. Kerr has published 30 books.

M.E. Kerr does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shockproof Sydney Skate, was published in September 2016.

The first book by M.E. Kerr, Slap Your Sides, was published in January 1901.

Yes. M.E. Kerr has 1 series.
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